Saber rattling in the West is down to the fact that the US and EU have woken up to the idea of Russia as an independent power, and they don’t appreciate the challenge, according to Moscow’s top diplomat, who spoke frankly to RT.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke out during an interview marking RT’s 15th anniversary, in which he took a look back at the last two decades. He cited the West’s realization that Russia could go its own way as the most significant event in foreign policy in that time, adding that “Russia will always put its national interests first, and it will honestly and equally settle those national interests with any other country on the basis of international law, but they won’t be overshadowed.”
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